Railway-ticket.



No. 765,458. l Y PATENTBD JULY 19, 1904. lW.` HJ'CAMPBELL.

RAILWAY TICKET.

APrLIoATIoH FILED un 4, 1903.

No MODEL.

UNITED STATES- Patented July 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

RAILWAYTICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 765,458, dated July 19, 1904.

Application iiled May 4:, 1903. Serial No. 155,552. (No model.)

y T0 afZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, borough of Manhattan, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Tickets, fully described and represented in the following1 specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

rIhe especial obj ect of the present invention is to provide an improved excursion-ticket, by which a ticket to and from any station on the road or on the portion of the road for which the ticket is printed may be conveniently issued by the agent and which will provide the passenger with separate going and return tickets and furnish agents and auditors vouchers showing the stations for use between which the ticket is sold; but tickets embodying the invention may be used also for other purposes than as excursiontickets. l

As a full understanding of the invention can best be given by a description of a ticket, such a description will now be given, in connection with the accompanying drawings, showing an excursion-ticket embodying all the features of my invention applied in their preferred form, and the features forming the invention will then be specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the ticket folded. Fig. 2 shows the same ticket opened to show the two parts.

Referring to said drawings, the ticket is made in two parts A and B, adapted to be folded together and separated on the dotted line l. The part A includes a contract portion c good for passage from the station at which the ticket is sold, an intermediate portion c', having a list of stations arranged as hereinafter described, and an end portion c2, shown as forming the auditors stub. The part B has a corresponding contract portion good for a return passage tothe station at which the ticket is sold, intermediate portion H, having the same list of stations as portion a', and end portion b2, forming the agents Stub.

Each of the portions a' contains two lists of the same stations, the stations of one-list being arranged one line below the corresponding stations of the other list, so that the separation of the ticket along a line between two stations will form two end portions which will have at their ends as the last station shown thereon'the same station of different lists.

For convenience and to Ieduce the length of the ticket the stations of each list on each of the parts c L are preferably arranged, as shown, in two columns side by side, so that a station of one list isv on the same line with another station of the other list. While this arrangement is preferable, however, it will be understood that the two lists of stations Inay be arranged in single columns side by side. For conveniently distinguishing the two 'lists of stations one list is preferably printed in large type reading from the contract portions c and the other in small type reading from the agents and auditors stubs c2 b2. The corresponding large and small type lists of stations on the two portions c b are lprinted on the same lines, but reversed in arrangement sidewise of the ticket, so that the saine station on the two portions will lie one upon the'other whenthe ticket is folded for severing on the desired line, as shown in Fig. 1.

The use of the ticket lwill be understood from a brief description, in connection with the drawings, in which the printed matter on lthe ticket clearly shows the use of the different parts.

As illustrated, the ticket is an excursionticket issued from the station Gradys, and this ticket may be issued to any one of twentysix other stations listed in large type belowl and reading from the contract and in small type reading toward the contract. A In the eX- ample illustrated the ticket is supposed to be issued from Gradys to the station Greenway and return. y

In selling the ticket the agent tears or cuts the ticket with the two parts folded together, as in Fig. l, on the line below the station Greenway in large type, as shown by the dotted line in Figs. l and 2. The two contract portions of the ticket are then given the purchaser, this portion of the ticket or part A being good from Gradys to Greenway, the last station shown below in large type, and the corresponding portion B being good for the return trip from the last large-type station Greenway to Gradys. The part awhich is the auditors stub and forwarded to the auditor by the selling agent, and the part 52, which is the agents stub and retained by him, both show the station Greenway as the last station in small type, s0 that each of these stubs gives a voucher for the sale of an excursion-ticket from Gradys to Greenway and return. On the outgoing trip the conductor separates the two tickets or parts A B on the dotted line l and takes up the ticket A for the outgoing trip, and on the return trip the conductor takes up the ticket or part B, these two tickets or parts A B being forwarded to.

the auditor, as usual.

rlhe ticket shown in the drawings may be used for a single trip instead of excursion by tearing the ticket in the same way as before and giving the purchaser only the ticket or part A for passage from Gradys to Greenway; but in that case the agents and auditors stubs must be changed by erasing the words and return, or these words may be omitted on the stubs, to be inserted or not by the agent in selling the ticket, depending on whether the ticket is sold for an excursion or single trip. I

Whether the ticket be used as a single-trip ticket or as an excursion-ticket, the stubs at the opposite ends of the ticket from the contract portions form vouchers constituting a record of the sale and showing the same last station as the contract portion or portions. The term voucher7 is used in the claims as meaning such a stub severed from the contract portion to form a record of the sale and showing the stations between which the ticket is to be used.

It will be understood that many details of the ticket shown may be varied while retaining the features forming the invention. For instance, as illustrated, a special ticket is printed for each station, the ticket shown being for Gradys; but it will be understood that .the name of the selling station may be left blank and iilled in at the time of sale, so that the same ticket may be used for all stations, or the station at which sold may be indicated by stamping or otherwise. The form illustrated will usually be found preferable.

If it be desired to increase the number of vouchers or part-s for each ticket, it will be understood that the tickets can be printed and folded in three, four, or more parts similar to the two parts illustrated, thus increasing the number of vouchers or parts, all vouchers or parts showing the same d estination-point when separated.

What I claim isw l. A ticket consisting of two or more parts, each part being provided with two lists of the same stations and having a contract portion at one end and a voucher at the opposite end, the stations of one list being arranged one line below the corresponding stations of the other list, and corresponding stations on the different parts of the ticket being arranged to registerv when the parts are folded together, whereby the separation of the parts of the ticket on the same line between two stations of one list divides each of the parts into two end portions forming contracts and vouchers with the end portions of all the parts showing the same last station, the opposite end portions showing the last station of dierent lists.

2. A ticket consisting of two or more parts, each part being provided with two lists of the same stations reading from opposite ends of the ticket and'having a contract portion at one end and a voucher at the opposite end, the stations of one list being arranged one line bclow the corresponding stations of the other list, and corresponding stations on the different parts of the ticket being arranged to register when the parts are folded together, whereby the separation of the parts of the ticket on the same line between two stations of one list divides each of the parts of the ticket into two end portions forming contracts and vouchers with the end portions of all the parts showing' the same last station, the opposite end portions showing the last station of different lists.

3. An excursion-ticket consisting of two or more parts, each part being provided with two lists of the same stations, the stations of one list being arranged one line below the corresponding stations of the other list, and corresponding stations on the different parts of the ticket being arranged to register when the parts are folded together, two parts of the ticket having at one end contract portions for travel in opposite directions and excursionvouchers at the opposite ends, whereby the separation of the parts of the ticket on the same line between two stations of one list divides each of the two parts into a contract portion and a voucher portion, with all portions of all the p'arts showing the same last station, the contract and voucher portions showing the last station of diferent lists.

4.- An excursion-ticket formed in two parts and having lists of stations on each part arranged to show the same last station on each of the four end portions when both parts of the ticket are severed between stations on the IOO IIO

same line across the lists and the parts are severed from each other between the lists, said two parts of the ticket having at corresponding ends contract portions for travel in opposite directions and at their opposite corresponding ends excursion-vouchers.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM- H. CAMPBELL.

Witnesses: E. C. EVANS, E. S. .LAFFEY. 

